Following songs about drug-dealer and a relationship by Rodriguez, let's move onto prostitution, guilt and possible murder by the sublime Australian from 2013's Push The Sky Away. Much has been speculated about whether the Jubilee Street of the title is the one in Cave's home when written - Brighton - or another in the Spitalfields area of London, and haunt of Jack The Ripper. The latter is a misconception. Cave was most likely thinking of any such street of downtown sleaze at the time of writing, with tragedy never far from his lyrics or at times, personal life. In fact this song is most likely a different take on the middle-aged lothario character in his own second novel, the darkly humorous and philosophical The Death of Bunny Munro (2009).

Mainly from the point of view of a guilt-ridden punter, it seems that he impregnated, and possibly even killed the hooker named Bea, but there are many layers of its meanings. However the true strength of this tawdry tale in song is how it its uses simple repetitive riffs to build and build into extraordinary intensity, upping the pace towards the end to express a feeling of redemption and transcendence, so powerfully performed by the devilishly messiah-like singer it cannot help but lift us to another place. One of his very best of many, studio and live versions are below:

[Verse 1]On Jubilee street there was a girl named BeaShe had a history, but she had no pastWhen they shut her down the Russians moved inNow I'm too scared, I'm too scared to even walk on pastShe used to say:All those good people down on Jubilee StreetThey ought to practice what they preachHere they ought to practice what they preachThose good people on Jubilee StreetAnd here I come up the hillI’m pushing my own wheel of loveI got love in my tummy and a tiny little painAnd a 10-ton catastrophe on a 60-pound chainAnd I’m pushing my wheel of love on Jubilee Street

[Refrain]AhLook at me now

[Verse 2]The problem was she had a little black bookAnd my name was written on every pageWell, a girl’s gotta make ends meetEven down on Jubilee StreetI was out of place and time, and over the hill, and out of my mindOn Jubilee StreetI ought to practice what I preachThese days I go downtown in my tie and tailsI got a fetus on a leashI am alone now, I am beyond recriminationsThe curtains are shut, the furniture is goneI’m transforming, I’m vibrating, I’m glowing

Jon Spencer’s explosive solo to Marianne Faithfull’s gentle honesty, Bill Ryder-Jones love songs to music by the film director David Lynch, this week’s album roundup embraces a wealth of experimentation and styles

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Word of the week: It’s an idealised location of magnificence and beauty with Chinese origins described in Coleridge’s poem, and a 1980 film starring Olivia Newton-John and song performed with ELO, but where else does it appear in lyrics?

Word of the week: Following on from zephyr last week, we work backwards to a colour term that can pertain to cheap books, a fish, a mussel, insect, a certificate for gold, and in urban slang, council workers wearing hi-vis jackets

Word of the week: Launching a new Song Bar series highlighting words or phrases used in lyrics for the oddness or musicality, let’s start with a z-word, and several examples including Madonna, Bill Callaghan, Frank Sinatra and Ian Dury

Song of the Day: Continuing a week of WW1 anniversary songs, in an unusually tender song from the heavy rock band, it’s a tragic first-person narration of the Battle of the Somme where 19,000 British soldiers were killed before noon

Song of the Day: Next in a week of songs dedicated to the First World War Armistice centenary, a deeply sad and vivid song by Ray Davies about the fleeting life of a young soldier killed in 1916 from the 1969 album, Arthur

Song of the Day: Continuing on the First World War Armistice Day centenary, a trio of some of the finest songs about war from the British singer and composer from her acclaimed 2011 album Let England Shake

Song of the Day: Today’s date, 7 November, is significant in all sorts of ways - elections, revolutions, births, deaths, but it’s the day in 1908 when two of America’s most famous outlaws were reportedly killed on the run in Bolivia

Song of the Day: In the wake of the most vital mid-term US elections in a generation, the 1972 rock song that is often wheeled out on these occasions, but less known is that it is a reworking of an earlier song, Reflected